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. 2004 Oct;53(10):1431–1436. doi: 10.1136/gut.2004.042002

Table 1.

 Tissue selection

Location No of samples
Gastric corpus 4
    Antrum 5
Duodenum 4
Jejunum proximal 2
    Distal 3
Ileum 5
Appendix vermiformis 3
Colon 3
Rectum 3

Total number of patients, 27.

In two patients, two tissue samples with a different location were investigated and three tissue samples contained two locations.

Specimens contained a malignant neoplasm in 21 patients and inflammatory lesions in six patients.